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Welcome to got it covered but we asked
some of the region's best musicians to

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tackle songs which they made out of
originally intended to tackle I know it was

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there in front they were coming
to you live from W.C.C. A.T.V.

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In beautiful downtown Wister today we have
asked Singer songwriter Shaun Ryder to

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take. A thong which you might not
have ever thought that he would love

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to day Sean takes on my
best friend by Air Supply.

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You know or. Same. As for.

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Opening the fond way. To go. To

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school and stay the.

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Last word down home.
Now the season's home.

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To me. Hard to all.

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Work out and they all leaders
show we're here for each other.

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Reason the stay. Calm as you.

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Know you. Had lots

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dreams on home. Now it's closer the show.

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Snoop good spot for. It all passes.

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Down. A only to show we're
here for each other.

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Reason the state. Calms you know.

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Who had lots dreams on home. Now it's.

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See. I'll pass.

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I'll pass.

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Her right I was shy right here playing my
best friend and we're here we're shy now

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I thank you great thank you thank you for
shit so we're going to get on to your

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story and what you're up to these days and
such but let's start with one question

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What was your reaction when you found
out you were going to be playing an air

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supplies song. Shock and dismay I think
is the only way to describe it yeah

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of course I knew of their supply and you
know their famous songs yeah I'm wonderful

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musicianship indeed but not necessarily my
cup of tea or the type of thing I would

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normally play Yeah that is

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a common response I think. Now you were
familiar with this although I was not it's

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not one of the popular songs it is on
their first album it was the last song on

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their first album and I'd never heard
it before and so I gave it several good

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lessons before I decided to try to adapt
it now wouldn't you have to adapt it to

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your own liking to your voice so well the
most important thing was I had to take it

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down

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a couple of steps had to lower the key
because I cannot sing way so high like like

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Air Supply Kim. I had to find

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a chord progression that worked with my
style of playing so. The bones of the song

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are pretty much there but there's some
differences to make it. More playable with

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a solo acoustic sort of sound. And then
I change some of the lyrics around just

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a little bit to try to make it more of a
concrete story I like story songs more of

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a cowboy country guy yeah and
some of the lyrics were just

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a little too open ended for me and so I
felt like the story was in there but I

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wanted to make it more precise so you one
of the kind of carve the story out of

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that straight out of the stone as it
were. As it were I felt it was very rich

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material that just needed

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a little whittling Well it's funny because
you know I reviewed our supply when they

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were at the head of our theater recently
and. Even though I had been living with

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Air Supply as it were through the cover
song challenge which you originally got

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signed Yes I didn't know how I would feel
about actually seeing them but I gotta

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say I actually enjoyed their show I don't
doubt it the musicianship is incredible

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Yeah and it doesn't help them when
they play live there or there or have

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a top notch backing band then totally
totally And but yeah he can still hit all

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those notes and it's really impressive and
I never could hit any of them yeah every

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month still Yeah and it seemed like he
was really and they were really enjoying

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themselves up there in the thing and imagine
after forty something years of playing

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these songs still being in love
with them so hard to even fake.

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But it was packed and it was completely
packed with there were people who'd been

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waiting there hold wide stance here supply
their right so let's talk about you

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because you don't have

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a fairly traditional working musicians back
that expression of somebody you know is

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out so much you know you're you have

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a day job I don't do I do know
so little about that so I'm

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a biochemistry professor at U.

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Mass Medical School spend
most of my days running

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a research laboratory running grants to
the National Institute of Health most of

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Sciences grant writing this is the truth.
Very good days I get to teach classes to

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Ph D. Students or even spend

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a day in the lab and do some experiments
like I did today it was very fun nice but

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you know most of the time it's it's pushing
piles of cash around and making sure

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everybody gets paid and doing more managerial
kinds of things yeah so how do you

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make that transition from science which is

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a commanding full time job that's not like
I thought like working at Kmart that.

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That's the yeah you know when you're there
when you're not sciences that that's one

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of those things that your life I for sure
it is I know it's time going so how did

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you make that transition to being

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a Also professional
musician. So. Bottom line

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is I'd always performs as a child as

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a younger high school student college student
things like this I really got in the

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choral singing in college and did

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a whole bunch of that and when I started
graduate school and I went to get my Ph D.

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. I spent one year singing with the New
Haven corral and I was at the request of

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two of my professors in the department I
was in both of whom are members and so I

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did that but it was six plus hours
of rehearsal is a week which is

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a lot and it was

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a lot and I wanted to do things like pass
my class. And pass my qualifying exams

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and things like this and so I decided I
would give give up give up singing in the

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crowd in order to in order to focus on my
career and and I didn't really find my

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way back into performing or doing music
at all until after I finished my Ph D.

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I had my first post doctoral research
experience out in California and then move in

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in the West or I was just I was just
cranking in the lab and thinking only about

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work and family and wondering what was
missing in my life because it definitely

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felt like something was missing. And then
several years back I wandered into into

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Vincent's over on the
Suffolk Street and there is

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a wonderful local singer performing and
I'm like This is what's missing I need

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music back in my life and so I started
going out as much music as I could and

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started falling in love with it again. Next
thing I know is breaking my instruments

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out of the closet and starting to write
some songs and you know you can't really

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play at home all the time you've got to go
out and perform that's half the fun and

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so here I am acts like you're
playing up but I think

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a lot of people kind of classified depending
on who you're talking to as either

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country or America or maybe folk but you
know somewhere in that range Yeah I try to

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cross those those boundaries as much as
possible you do for me from the audience

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for that New England
because you know this is

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a rock town it's You'd be
surprised I think American

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a music plays pretty well
in this town and there's

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a lot of interest in folk
in this region and there's

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a big folk festival that happens in
Massachusetts every year and there's wonderful

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musicians who are born and raised here
performing in all three of those genres Yeah

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and so I have no problem going out to

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a local establishment and finding people
performing this kind of stuff Now

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certainly there's places that would rather
hear upbeat covers Oh yes which is OK I

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mean you know pays the bills the audience
loves it not necessarily what I want to

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hear when I go out but there's also Vater
Vader's venues that cater to this kind of

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music and they're the types of venue so
get my patronage that I would say there's

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more now than there were even just

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a few years ago it seems like new clothes
are growing interest in country in

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America and there you know

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a lot of support for the singer songwriter
in this region excellent excellent so.

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You've put out an album fairly recently
I did and the song we heard today was

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actually on that album I feel obliged to
put the song on my album because I fell in

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love with it as a result of your cover
song challenge it's just it's just such

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a beautiful song at the end of the day and
once tweaks to the way I like it I felt

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I felt compelled Axl it acts what costs

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a little bit else about that what you got
on that album. So altogether it's called

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the rise in the fall. Came out at the end
of December because I really wanted to

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put something out in two thousand and
seventeen but I'm slacker and so I had to

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come right at the last few days of December
the first half of the album is pretty

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much my foray into rock N roll
protest music Yep and that

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was at the. Suggestion of

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a good friend Ted Theodore who's well
known in the local music community

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photographer goes to lots of
shows indeed he was. He put out

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a challenge to to us the local music community
to stand up and say something about

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what we believed it and so I
took that to heart and I wrote

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a bunch of protest songs and I put them on
the album and they were more rock'n'roll

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than I usually get distorted fuzzed out
guitars that kind of stuff even played

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a little drums which I never do and then
the second half of the album is gets back

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towards the solo softer acoustic roots of
the music that I tend to play. Filtered

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through the cover song challenges right
because my best friend from Air Supply

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ended up on it there is

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a Madonna song on the album and then your
side project where you invited me to one

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of your poems that's right you adapted my
poem. Letter to Louis ten years later the

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script about dealing with the death of

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a friend ten years after the fact and your
death that the saga and of itself I'm

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not mistaken we're going to be hearing that
after next Absolutely yes I'm going to

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play that for you I thought looking forward
Thank you very much and let's hear the

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song.

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This was assuming. Of her saying.

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Ponies. Through the
purple paint. Sway in the

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music. Not the.

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Costumes rhythm in the good.

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Can still. She song the be. Moving

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through for. Free. Cigarette

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smoke I.

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Am to buy her. She's.

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Wrong who is. True or it all weighs five.

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Hundred saying never call
your daddy did he is so

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down. To the CD.

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Sales fall apart. Cain being. Haunted by

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the memories strong. Teen.
Choke on the hood here.

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Not heard all the song. Habits die hard.

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Or more it's gong. Habits
die in the Har more

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from. More. Is gong.